Policeman helps deliver baby in a car in London.

A policeman who planned to have a stern word with a driver who had justovertaken him instead found himself helping to deliver the man's baby daughter. Pc Dan Wells noticed the baby was turning blue and the quick-thinking constablemoved the umbilical cord which was wrapped around the baby's neck, restoring heroxygen supply. Anxious father-to-be Michael Nadel had flagged down the police car in southwest London to ask for help to get to The Portland Hospital, in central London,as his wife Natalia was in labour. "He (Mr Nadel) was behind us and overtook then pulled in. I was about to havewords with him about the way he was driving then he said his wife was having ababy," Pc Wells said. "I think he was hoping for a blue light escort but instead we decided to callan ambulance." Mr Nadel, 39, returned to his wife Natalia, 31, but seconds later came back tothe police to tell them the labour was moving faster than expected. Pc Wells and his colleague Pc Felicity Cullen saw the baby was on its way whenthey went over to the Russian couple's grey BMW which was parked on FulhamRoad. "The head was out and it was kind of blue. We could see the umbilical cordwrapped around the baby's neck," Pc Wells said. "The baby hadn't made a noise at that time so we wondered what we were dealingwith. "I didn't know what to do but I told the mum to push and out came the baby. Itook the umbilical cord from from its neck and handed it to mum." Mr Nadel, a banker from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, said he has noticed the cordand praised Pc Wells for his quick-thinking. "It was very dangerous," he said. "But she's been checked over by the doctorand everything is okay." Nikol weighed 2.95kg (6.4lbs) and is doing well, he said. "It was very dramatic," he added. "I'd like to say thanks to him. Thepoliceman really helped us. "It was fantastic. I'm very, very happy." The police officers were on their way back to Fulham police station to filesome paperwork when the baby arrived at 3.25am today. Pc Wells, who has no children of his own and has had no training in deliveringbabies, said: "I just did what I thought at the time was right."

I had a really quick labour and ended up having ds2 at home before midwives/paramedics could get there. He was delivered by my dh, who is also a policeman. Although I was a bit paniced, part of me thought, well he's bound to have done some training for this sort of thing. It wasn't until a couple of weeks later he admitted that he didn't have a clue......